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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Charles C. Mann [Mann, Charles C.]

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category: Americas September 1,2017 )
Sparta: The Ultimate Greek Warriors: Everything You Need To Know About the Spartan Civilization (Sparta History, Greek Spartans 101) by Beckett Thomas
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Beckett, Thomas [Beckett, Thomas]

Chapter Twelve - Famous Spartans At first thought, it is the state of Sparta as a whole that comes to mind instead of the people themselves. Spartan history is full ...
( Category: World September 1,2017 )
The Nazi Titanic by Robert P. Watson
epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Robert P. Watson

Chapter 17 IN THE BUNKER AS THE PRISON SHIPS in the Baltic were being loaded, another scene of desperation was taking place underground in the heart of Berlin. Adolf Hitler ...
( Category: World September 1,2017 )
1491 by Charles C. Mann
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Charles C. Mann

TEN THOUSAND MOUNDS Anyone who traveled up the Mississippi in 1100 A.D. would have seen it looming in the distance: a four-level earthen mound bigger than the Great Pyramid of ...
( Category: Americas September 1,2017 )
The Anatomist, the Barber-Surgeon, and the King: How the Accidental Death of Henry II of France Changed the World by Seymour I. Schwartz
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Seymour I. Schwartz [Schwartz, Seymour I.]

Fig. 41. Ambroise Paré, age 45. If the “publish or perish” adage of academia is invoked, the conclusion would be that Paré thrived to the very end of his life. ...
( Category: World September 1,2017 )
The Endurance by Caroline Alexander
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-09-01 | Author:Caroline Alexander [Alexander, Caroline]

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica September 1,2017 )
The Empire of Necessity by Greg Grandin
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Greg Grandin [Grandin, Greg]

21 DECEPTION The Tryal came down along the rough, windy side of Santa María Island hard around its southern head, rocking and pitching. Only by luck did Cerreño give a ...
( Category: Americas September 1,2017 )
The End of Days by Helen Sendyk
epub |eng | 1992-04-14 | Author:Helen Sendyk [Sendyk, Helen]

Just then they heard a piercing groan from nearby. Gittel was screaming for help. Heshek dispatched Shprintza to summon some of the experienced womenfolk, while Cesia rolled up her sleeves ...
( Category: World September 1,2017 )
The Icon Hunter by Tasoula Georgiou Hadjitofi
epub |eng | 2017-08-31 | Author:Tasoula Georgiou Hadjitofi

Cyprus and the repatriation efforts of the Church have become big news in the Netherlands thanks to Jan Fred. My work on the Lans case and on the recovery of ...
( Category: Historical August 31,2017 )
Into The Silence by Wade Davis
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Wade Davis [Davis, Wade]

Long before you get this you will know the result, which may make my speculations look foolish; but I must make them, I can think of nothing else. The excitement ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 31,2017 )
Courtesans (Text Only) by Katie Hickman
epub |eng | 2003-08-31 | Author:Katie Hickman [Hickman, Katie]

Not much is known about the last years of Harriette’s life. Between 1821 and 1823, after her affair with Meyler, she fell into the clutches of a man named William ...
( Category: Europe August 31,2017 )
Daughters of Britannia by Katie Hickman
epub |eng | 1999-08-31 | Author:Katie Hickman [Katie Hickman]

Every detail of public life was strictly regulated for diplomatic wives, from the number of diamonds they wore to their presentation, to the depth of their plongeon and the length ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 31,2017 )
Mad for Glory by Robert Booth
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Booth

Porter had little to do for the next few weeks at Nukuhiva. As the refitting of the Essex went forward, he worked on his journal and wrote a formal report ...
( Category: Military August 31,2017 )
High Society by Mike Jay
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Mike Jay

By 1900 the Bayer pharmaceutical range included both Heroin, a powerful new variant on morphine, and Aspirin, an opiate-free analgesic. Veronal, launched by Bayer in 1903, represented a new category ...
( Category: Anthropology August 31,2017 )
Comparative Religion For Dummies by William P. Lazarus & Mark Sullivan
epub |eng | | Author:William P. Lazarus & Mark Sullivan

The mysterious Kabbalah One other book deserves mention, the Kabbalah, which contains several books with it. The largest text in the Kabbalah, the Zohar, was probably written around the 1200s ...
( Category: World August 31,2017 )

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